AiioiisT, 18 1913] Fouu Score of New Plants 1823 



the Bureau of Science. 



OCHNACEAE 



Ochna foxworthyi Elm. n. sp. 



Slender tree; stem 2 dm. thick, 12 m. high, terete or sub- 

 terete toward the base, nearly traight, branched only toward 

 the top; sapwood dingy W^hite, gradually changing into the lat- 

 ericius greater central mass, odorless and without taste, mod- 

 erately hard; bark dull ardisiacus, conspicuously scaling in small 

 thin plates, relatively thin, isabellinus beneath the epidermis; 

 main branches short, numerously rebranched, forming a con- 

 densed crown; twigs lax, very flexible, the young tips glabrous. 

 Leaves ascending or horizontal, recurved toward the obtuse apex, 

 usually slightly conduplicate upon the very shining upper 

 surface, duller beneath, even so in the brown dry state, 

 coriaceous, alternate, entire or the sides very minutely ser- 

 rate, base subcuneate or obtuse, narrowly oblong, the average 

 blades 8 cm. long by 2.5 cm. wide across the middle; 

 midrib rather conspicuous especially beneath; lateral nerves 

 numerous, very fine, quite oblique and only slightly curved 

 from the base, doubly united 1 to 2 mm. distant from the 

 edge; petiole 5 mm. long. Inflorescence terminal, suberect, 

 upon short scar marked terete spikes 1 to 2 cm. in length; 

 flowers deciduous, crowded and arranged on all sides of 

 the receptacle; pedicels light creamy white, very slender, 

 glabrous, drying brown, 1 cm. long, strongly and sweetly 

 scented; bracts appearing axillary, fuligineus, caducous, leaving 

 the conspicuous scars after falling, glabrous, conically im- 

 bricated; calyx cremeus, glabrous, imbricate, subpersistent and 

 widely spreading; sepals 5, subequal, 5 mm. long, one half 

 as wide, truncate at base, rounded at apex, subcoriaceous, 

 veiny; petals very similar though lighter cremeus and thin- 

 ner in texture than the sepals, also equal in number; fil- 

 aments strict, subterete, 1.5 ram. long, ascending, persistent, 

 10; anthers ochraceus, linear, 1 mm. longer, 0.75 ram. wide, 

 basifixed, obtusely rounded at both ends with a large connective, 

 laterally dehiscent; ovary also glabrous, composed of 5 sep- 

 arate subglobose carpels, the 0.75 mm. thick carpel connected 



